The 1941 Spring Hill Badgers football team was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

team that represented

Spring Hill College Spring Hill College is a private, Jesuit college in Mobile, Alabama. It was founded in 1830 by Michael Portier, Bishop of Mobile. Along with being the oldest college or university in the state of Alabama, it was the first Catholic college in the ...

as a member of the

Dixie Conference The Dixie Conference was the name of two collegiate athletic leagues in the United States The first operated from 1930 until the United States' entry into World War II in 1942. The second conference to use the name existed from 1948 to 1954. Dix ...

during the

1940 college football season The 1940 college football season was the 72nd season of intercollegiate football in the United States. Competition included schools from the Big Ten Conference, the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC), the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the Big Six Co ...

. In their third year under head coach

Earle Smith Earle Smith was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama from 1938 to 1939 and in 1941. Smith played college football at the University of Alabama. He was the brother of ...

, the team compiled a 2–6 record. This marked the final season for Spring Hill football as the College elected to abandon the program in January 1942.

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Spring Hill Badgers football The Spring Hill Badgers football team represents the Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. The school's teams are known as the Badgers. They have not competed in football since 1941. History The Spring Hill football team played its first game in ...

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